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flight instructor

A pilot authorized to impart instructions to another person to pilot an aircraft.
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The flight instructor received minor injuries and the student pilot was seriously injured.
The flight instructor took control and found that neither the application of full rudder nor the use of both feet to neutralize the deflections had any effect.
Although syllabi, NATOPS, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) provide many built-in risk controls, we rely on flight instructors to safely train our fledgling aviators and overcome the day-to-day hurdles.
The flight instructor reported that they departed the airfield with three gallons of gas in the airplane.
The flight instructor took control, verified the fuel pump was on, the mixture was rich and the landing gear was down, then attempted to glide to the runway.
The pilot's flight instructor reported observing the initial three landings; however, there were no witnesses to the accident.
Gobbo has been at GrandView Aviation since 2016; he was a fighter pilot, flight instructor and flight safety officer in the Brazilian Air Force.
A flight instructor and his student aboard an aircraft have been missing since May 17, 2019, according to the instructor's wife.
Representatives from the aviation authority are due to meet with Saudi embassy officials in Manila on Wednesday to provide an update on efforts to find the missing Beechcraft Baron 55 (BB-55) trainer aircraft and its two passengers, Abdullah Khalid Al-Sharif, a student of the Orient Flying School, and his flight instructor, Capt.
He has accepted a full-time position as a flight instructor for Wisconsin Aviation located at the Madison, Wisconsin Airport.
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